How To Date The Waitress

Your Guide To Picking Up Waitresses

The truth is that most guys will hit on her. They'll say something stupid.

So, you walk into a restaurant and you wait 15 minutes for a table. You're starving. You sit down, stare at the menu and a kind voice says, “Hey, guys, what are you in the mood for tonight?”

You look up and your tongue hits the ground. The hottest waitress you've seen in a long time is staring directly at you and you don't know what to say. All your friends’ eyes are on you, because they see the stunned look on your face, and they all know you're hot for her.

You want to make a great first impression. You want to figure out how to crack the restaurant code. You want to be able to date this hot waitress, and you want to be the charming guy at the table. How do you make it happen? It's so easy it's ridiculous.

Create a bond all about her

For seven years in my 20s, I was a bartender/waiter in New York City. I had women hit on me all the time, but I only ever dated the ones who connected with me. See, life is all about connection. It's understanding where somebody else is, connecting to their world and immediately creating a bond that nobody else has.

The truth is that most guys will hit on her. They'll say something stupid. They'll call her over and say dumb things. They'll never talk to her. This is what I do: When I see a hot waitress and I'm caught off guard like you were just caught off guard, I look directly at her and go, “Ah, man, I have no idea what to eat. Let me ask you a question. If I was standing there and asked you what you'd like to eat right now, and you were sitting here with my buddies — and believe me, they're really good guys — what would you want to eat?”

And when she tells you what's good, just look at her and say, “Oh, man, why don't you just sit here right now? I'll take over your shift. Just let me know what's been 86ed in the kitchen.”

“86” is the term that restaurant people use to talk about what food item is no longer available. You're talking her language right there. Now she’ll probably laugh and say, “I think we're almost out of salmon.” Then you could say, “All right, fine. Let me go back to the kitchen, let me go grab those salmon orders right now.” You bond with her immediately in that moment. She now understands. She now knows that you speak her language. She'll be curious whether or not you ever worked in a restaurant. Not only that, but you basically set up a good feeling between the two of you for the rest of the evening.

Now watch her work the tables, and I guarantee you there's always a table that's a big pain in the butt. So the next time she comes over, say, “Hey, look at table four over there. What's up with them? Do you need me to come over there and handle them for you?”

Or, “That guy over at table six, man. He's been hitting on you. You see the way he's been looking at you? He looks like he wants to eat you!”

That's what you want to do. You want to bond directly with her. When you bond directly with her, you have an opportunity to go and date the waitress. The key here is always relate to her world, the environment that she's in. And it’s a lot of fun.

Learn about her bit by bit

I've dated a lot of waitresses and bartenders in my lifetime, and the key thing is to keep them talking, find out a little bit about them when they come over the third time. Say, “Hey, what else do you do? What do you do in your free time? What are your passions? You want to own a restaurant one day?”

Find out things about them. So, by the end of the night, if you speak to them enough, they keep coming over and they linger because they like you. The more they linger, the more they come to the table and talk with you. What you need to do at that moment is ask her out. Say, “Hey, look, I know the wild salmon is 86ed here, but I know this great place down the road where the salmon flows free. Why don't we go check it out one night?”

And that's how you seal the deal. That's how you close her. That's how you get her to feel 100% comfortable with everything that you are. They're fun to date, the waitresses, with their bubbly personalities and flexibility. But in order to go from average customer to lover, bond with her by connecting in a way that most other guys wouldn’t.